Wallace was an old soldier and he knew enough about himself that he could be fairly confident of judging his own state of mind. He was pretty sure that during the invasion, he’d gone ever so slightly mad. Perhaps more than slightly. That wasn’t what he thinking about though, having your mind crack a little on the edges wasn’t all …

“What I want to know, Captain, is when you and our new oppressors will settle the matter of reparations!” the old man sneered. Wallace Dalton, former Captain of the Rylleh City Guard and now the appointed military adjutant to the Rylleh branch of the Colony, suppressed the urge to spit and continued to grind his chew between his teeth, hoping …

The days of the wave rolled on and the mana level continued to rise, increasing the spawn rates of monsters throughout the Dungeon to an absurd rate. Every hour, thousands of newborn monsters clashed in the tunnels around the Colony, warring and fighting, the losers feeding the winners who grew rapidly in strength, feasting on their lessers. A hundred thousand …

Trawling through the list I see tons of interesting but niche Skills that would be useful but would contribute to Skill bloat that I pass over after a glance. Do I want to have a digging active? Sure, it might sound nice to have Shovel Mandibles to work in tandem with the Dig Skill, but it’s just way too niche. …

Examining Tiny and Crinis’ status reminds me that I really need to take a good hard look at my own. I’ve stacked up a reasonable supply of Biomass, certainly enough to start investing in upgrades to the two most expensive organs I have, the Vestibule and Nave. I’ve brought my antennae up to +15 since the reset, but to this …

It’s been a long, long time since I took a gander at the cores of my two longest serving companions. All in all, a little inspection is probably overdue, but I’ve grown to feel that poking at their status too often is probably a bit invasive. They’ve never complained about it, but so far I’ve hesitated to ask. But the …

[Get him, Tiny! Hit him with the left! Then the right! Ooooo, here comes the C-C-C-COMBO!] The big ape flashes a grin, more than a little happy with my ongoing fight commentary as he duels with the latest demonic offering from the third strata, a particularly nasty, snake-like creature with a huge number of clawed hands rising from its back …

Alir cocked an eyebrow. “What sort of insect?” he asked, his interest piqued. It wasn’t unheard of for an insect swarm to get out of control and pour into the second strata, their numbers making up for their generally weak individual strength, but that’s usually where things would end. Generally speaking, the surface and upper layers of the Dungeon had …

The power I held, it was so great I couldn’t see the whole of it, couldn’t grasp the scale, so vast had it become that I didn’t have a reference point for it, something to help me see its true nature. As it was, I came to understand it far too late to make a difference to the final outcome. …

We move through the nest with Burke running alongside and once again I’m stunned at the sheer level of industry that the Colony has grown to. The farming territories swarm with ants, culling the ever-spawning monsters and ferrying a constant stream of Biomass back to the nest. From there the food will be transported around the territories, to the Queens, …